4 Layer Compression Bandages

Normally, if you've got a venous ulcer, you go to the district nurse or your GP, who'd refer you to have the ankle brachial pressure indices done. And then when that's done, we would use four-layer compression bandages. This is the first layer and it's very soft and it helps to conform to your leg and hold the bandage in place. When you're bandaging, always use the foot in an upright position and we're using this bandage on a no stretch just in a half overlap. Can you hold your leg like that? The second bandage is just to hold this bandage in place, There's no compression in it and it's also at stretch, getting the point of the ankle and then half overlap. This is the first layer of compression and this gives you 17mm of mercury compression at the ankle. It goes on in a figure of eight and we use the green line to position the next layer. So this is no stretch, full stretch, so it's half stretch. Thank you. How many layers? This is four layers. Four layers. Yeah. And this is the final layer. is the fourth layer, and this is, yeah, so full stretch, no stretch, half stretch. I've got scissors. Okay? Very comfortable.